Jails may house people incarcerated for minor citations like outstanding traffic tickets, and may also house innocent people who haven't even been indicted or arraigned, let alone tried and convicted, innocent people whose release may simply be pending bail or acquittal. Many innocent people may have been trapped in a death cell against their will, left to die. This, of course, doesn't suggest people deemed guilty are any more deserving of a death sentence. Were 517 inmates disappeard? Is this more American genocide?
From Common Dreams News Center:
From Common Dreams News Center:
Human Rights Watch compared an official list of all inmates held at Orleans Parish prison immediately prior to the hurricane with the most recent list of the evacuated inmates compiled by the state Department of Corrections and Public Safety (which was entitled, “All Offenders Evacuated”). However, the list did not include 517 inmates from the jail . . .
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URBAN LEGEND!
Anonymous said...
"URBAN LEGEND! "
If the 517 remain unaccounted for, it may very well become an "urban legend," and then again it may become a criminal court case for violation of human rights, possibly depending on who happens to be among the missing or whether HRW decides to push this case forward.
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